Tree of the Week - Black Walnut
Tuesday July 15, 2008
Some plants are alleopathic - they produce substances that are harmful to some other plants. Black walnut falls into this catergory - it produces a chemical called juglone. As long as you remember this and choose your surrounding plants carefully, black walnut trees make good shade trees and provide nuts and lumber.
The black walnut tree is mainly found in the Eastern United States. The dual use for nuts and lumber is the reason I chose black walnut as the Tree of the Week.Yum!
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When I was a kid, growing up in the Silverlake district of Los Angeles, our friends across the street had a walnut tree in their back yard. We loved to climb it, as well as eat the walnuts.
Nice choice and good advice! Black walnuts are lovely, with dark and deeply fissured bark and bright green fruits that smell like aftershave. I miss the ones my folks had in their Orwell, Vermont yard.